All of our programs have been reviewed to ensure their relevance to state and national standards. (See Education Program descriptions.)

Farm to Factory

Massachusetts State Standards

Grade 3 – Social Studies

  • Topic 5. The Puritans, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Native Peoples, and Africans 
  • 2. Explain … how [European colonists] moved west from the Atlantic coast, and the consequences of their migration for the Native Peoples of the region.
  • 5. Explain the importance of … the practice of bartering – exchanging goods or services without payment in money—in the development of the economy of colonial Massachusetts, using materials from historical societies and history museums as reference materials.

NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE STANDARDS

Grades 3-4 – US/NH History

  • SS:HI:4:4.3: Investigate the evolution of the United States economy, e.g., the transition from farms to factories

Partnership

The Tsongas Industrial History Center is an education partnership between the University of Massachusetts Lowell School of Education and the National Park Service at Lowell National Historical Park.

  • UMass Lowell
  • National Park Service